environments‚ live in sulfur hot springs. As a result of living in such environments‚ however‚ these bacteria have enzymes that are stable at high temperatures‚ which could be useful for producing alternative fuels. ("DOE Joint Genome Institute") Some examples of thermoacidophiles are Thermoplasma Picrophilus Thermococci Paleococcus Pyrococcus Sulfolobus. Basically they will use iron or another metal to oxidize oxygen in a acidic environment‚ allowing the bacteria to produces energy. This process can
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their in need of one. I would define friends as people whom you can have several types of relations with and feel several emotions for that person. Someone that one might go to in time of need. However‚ friendships differ between people. For example‚ the friendship that someone may have between them and their parents would be different than the friendship they might have with someone their age. There are many different friendships that people have. Friendships can exist between best friends
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conservative hobbit to an adventurous and wise hobbit is long but very evident by the end of the adventure. He set out on this journey with his eyes on the prize‚ craving that gold. He returned wanting nothing more than friendship and a nice warm bed. This example in the hobbit turns back to my opening statement‚ that yes‚ events and things that happen to you can definitely change who you are‚
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In Maxine Hong Kingston’s autobiography The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts‚ Kingston struggles to assimilate into American culture while living in Chinese culture at home. Her conflict in identity leads her to self-invention as displayed by her idea of American-femininity and the fictitious image of the Woman Warrior‚ thus contradicting the idea of America as a melting pot. Kingston retains both her Chinese and American culture by merging the two together. The tradition of talk-stories
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The three essays‚ "Thank God For The Atom Bomb" by Paul Fussel‚ "Democracy" by Carl Becker‚ and "Chief Seattle: Letter to President Pierce‚ 1855" are three different rhetorical modes of writing that exposits theoretical‚ personal reasoning on the realities of certain controversial historical topics. The main focus of the essays are in proving a steadfast view of an ambiguous subject through sarcastic criticism of opposing ideas and by applying clever use of irony; the authors’ sentiments vary from
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a release. All these things together made the town run‚ no matter how strangely it was. Perfection also seemed to be an important part of the communities history. No mistakes could be tolerated‚ in everything from language to behavior. For example‚ Asher often screwed up the pronunciation of words during his young years‚ and often got smacked in the head and legs for it‚ which eventually made Asher cease talking for a year. Disciplining children for bad behavior and bad grammar was not too
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Today‚ we live in a world interwoven with women’s oppression‚ ecological degradation‚ and the exploitation of workers‚ race‚ and class. In the midst of these troubles‚ a movement known as ecofeminism appears to be gaining recognition. In the following‚ I hope to illustrate this revitalization movement . I will begin by characterizing a definition of ecofeminism; I will then bring to the forefront the ethical issues that Ecofeminism is involved with‚ then distinguish primary ideas and criticisms.
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¡§Depending on whom you ask‚ the iPhone is either the greatest electronic device to grace the planet or an overpriced‚ over hyped status gadget sold to rubes with more credit than sense‚¡¨ says Arik Hesseldahl of Business Week Online. Whether or not one sees Apple¡¦s iPhone as flawless or a flop‚ it is a device that demands our attention not only for its unprecedented features but from a marketing stand point as well. Whether it is seen as a success or a failure‚ it is undeniable that Apple has
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wife not just because he is enable to see. The introduction of the story explains the relationship between narrator’s wife and the blind man‚ detailing how it evolved to its present status. It is in this part that I as a reader I see an example of the figurative blindness from which the narrator suffers because of his knowledge of the relationship between the two which seem to stem from his own troubled relationship with his wife. Is here when his wife gave him an ultimatum to accept Robert
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normal‚ a person could still have a learning disability. My Thirteenth Winter: A Memoir‚ written by Samantha Abeel‚ introduces the issue of stereotyping learning disabled people. It showed the struggles she went through because of such stereotypes. Throughout the memoir‚ Abeel addresses the difficulty of being learning disabled using flashbacks to her time from elementary school to college. In that beginning of the memoir‚ Samantha Abeel was like everybody else‚ until she started falling behind in
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